Please copy the following notes into the Research Section of your notebook--keep these materials together and separate!!

Inquiry Question: questions posed by researchers about their areas of investigation to be answered through research.

Claim: A claim is the main argument of an essay. It is probably the single most important part of an academic paper. A claim defines your paper's goals and it must be argumentative--not an opinion.

*Click on the link here for more information on making claims and what they are: claim worksheet

Source: Where (article, book) you are getting your information from. 

Relevant evidence: connects directly to the claim and is related to the issue in an appropriate way.

Sufficient evidence: thoroughly reinforces the claim in an argument.  Usually, several pieces of evidence are needed to be "enough" to prove your claim true. 

Reasoning: sound or logical relationships among ideas, including relationship to the claim. Why is this evidence valid?

Research Portfolio: the binder or electronic folder where students physically or electronically store and organize all the material related to their personal research.

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We will watch this brief video on gender gaps before you begin your work today: gender gap video

Please make sure you are using RACE for all of your questions:

1. Some of the gender gaps that remain in today's society are (fill in with the answer). On page 42 it states, ("fill in with textual evidence"). This shows (fill in with explanation if possible).